Date of New Manager Appointment

[Fletch]

I see Fulham have a new manager this morning. By my reckoning it took them 5 days to replace Hughes, so why is it deemed acceptable for us to take over 3 weeks?

He was already interviewed last year when they tried to sign him, only to be rebuffed by his club at the time.

[Gulliball]

If we were starting last Monday then 2 weeks to the final appointment is still a long time, given the situation we are in right now starting the season late. However, we have known for the last month that Buckle is going, and our Chairman was at the Memorial Ground before the 1st leg of the semi when the deal was done, that's another two weeks on top of the two weeks. Bar Sturrock, who I don't think is a possibility at all, just paper talk, all the candidates are out of work, so we could have interviewed them all before the final if we had chosen to. Then we advertise it, and if someone applies at this stage, like Forster may have, then it's a much quicker process to just interview him and a few others and make an appointment this week. The extra 5 days might be the difference between a target being snapped up or still avaliable.

As another point, the fans might be speculating less if we had been kept informed. There's not been a since word on the managerial situation on our website since the news of Buckle leaving 8 days ago.

[MuzDog]

A good sign? I certainly hope so!

Victor Chandler also has Forster as 1/3 favourite, so looks like it's a done deal! Obviously, the more quickly we get him in the hotseat now the better so we can get things in place for the new season.

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[Gulliball]

Buckle was 1/4 for a job last season (possibly even Bristol Rovers, I forget which it was), and didn't get it. The market for this is so small that it doesn't take much for odds to move massively without any foundation.

[Regiment]

does anyone think it possible, that the board didn't expect us to get into the play offs, let alone the final, and as a result, this shunted their decisions by a couple of weeks. maybe they'd planned to put PB on gardening leave after the rovrum match, he then joins rovers on 1st june (or whatever), by which time, we've had 2 weeks to appoint a new manager.

[numpte]

Lets hope he brings his boots and comes out of retirement as well.

[Regiment]

just appeared on the BBC football website :-

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and the voting for the new matchday program naming has appeared on our website.

quality.

[AlexGulls]

Interesting to see Russells up to third faveourite now. He'd do a good job aswell I reckon.

[CP Gull]

Victor Chandler also has Forster as 1/3 favourite, so looks like it's a done deal! Obviously, the more quickly we get him in the hotseat now the better so we can get things in place for the new season.

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Well I would be more than happy with Forster and am beginning to get the feeling that he may be our man. He (Forster) was on the BBC Non League (still can't let go ) radio show last week when they were talking about him being linked to the H&Y job and I thought he came across as bright and articulate as well as being ambitious and not only that but he seemed realistic and down to earth in recognising that there are only a few managerial appointments to go around and there is always lots of competition and you have to start somewhere. He also mentioned having one or two contacts on the Non League scene in John Yems (he was used by Buckle in a scouting role for us a while back) and Willie Wordsworth (ex Cambridge Utd). I think, given his playing record, he will have built up a wealth of contacts in the game and would be a good choice for us.

Whether it's him or not I don't know but I have a feeling that we might end up knowing a bit sooner than we might have been led to believe. It appears that Jake Robinson (at least according to his Twitter) seems to reckon he knows who it is already (although he's not saying who!) and missed a call from someone "who has been linked with the (TUFC) job". Could it be Forster - after all they played together in the same Brighton team for two years?

I wonder whether there have been any firm developments coming out of todays scheduled Board Meeting ? We were led to believe that the plan was to draw up a shortlist of up to 5 and then to commence interviews - but I suppose if the Board felt unanimous in their support of one candidate over the others who had applied then it's possible they could reach a decision now rather than delay any further? I'm sure they recognise the importance of bringing stability back to the football club and the events of the last two days (losing Bevan and Stanley) may just have forced them to act sooner rather than later.

[Fletch]

does anyone think it possible, that the board didn't expect us to get into the play offs, let alone the final, and as a result, this shunted their decisions by a couple of weeks. maybe they'd planned to put PB on gardening leave after the rovrum match, he then joins rovers on 1st june (or whatever), by which time, we've had 2 weeks to appoint a new manager.

You may be totally right there matey. I also seem to remember there was a 5 year plan to get us back into the league when we dropped into the BSP?? Guess that one got overtaken by events as well